Social capital and civic action: A network-based approach

被引:117
作者
Son, Joonmo [1 ]
Lin, Nan [1 ]
机构
[1] Duke Univ, Dept Sociol, Durham, NC 27708 USA
关键词
social capital; individual and organizational social capital; expressive and instrumental civic actions; gendered civic actions; structural equation modeling;
D O I
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.12.004
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
We propose that social capital, defined as resources embedded in individual and organizational networks, produces expressive and instrumental civic actions. The 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey data were used to examine the hypothesis. Structural equation modeling confirmed that (1) individual social capital was the consistent and significant predictor of both expressive and instrumental civic actions; (2) organizational social capital played the most important role in predicting instrumental civic actions, although it was not significant in predicting expressive civic actions; and (3) civic actions are gendered: women were more likely to be involved in expressive civic actions, but the female dominance disappeared in the realm of instrumental civic actions. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:330 / 349
页数:20
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